Quotes of: Poverty Keyword

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Lee Whitnum

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

Mathieu Kerekou

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

Marc Forne Molne

Everyday 25,000 people die from poverty and hunger. And we have forgotten that they are also human.

M.F. Moonzajer

Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

Sal Albanese

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

Martin Lewis Perl

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

Michael Pollan

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

Malcolm Turnbull

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

Mother Teresa

You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

Noel Gallagher

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Without Feathers

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

Jennifer Gilmore

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Edward Gibbon

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

Paul Farmer

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

Alfred Marshall

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Joseph Stiglitz

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

Martin H. Fischer

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

Steven Soderbergh

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Kofi Annan